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| Sep 17, 2018 | Vista and GrandBanks back Dispatch | BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dispatch, a leading field service leader and customer experience pioneer, announced today it has received a strategic investment from Vista Equity Partners with participation from existing investor GrandBanks Capital.... |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Dispatch Raises $12M Series A | Dispatch, the enterprise technology company that is empowering the home services industry to meet the rising demands of the modern customer, today announced a partnership with ServiceMaster, one of the leading home services providers in the... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | Boston Tech Roundup: Freight Farms, Autodesk, Mavrck, Atlas | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Startups are raising money, a small developer shop has been acquired, and the split-up of a venture capital firm motors along in this collection of recent deals around the Bos... |
| Dec 17, 2014 | Mavrck Gets $2.5M Series A to Help Brands Identify Their Most Influential Customers | When Mavrck pitched at Techstars Demo Day last month, co-founder Lyle Stevens shared on stage that the ad-tech startup had signed a term sheet for its Series A. On Wednesday, that Series A was formally announced, in the form of $2.5 million... |
| Mar 25, 2013 | KnowledgeVision Systems Closes $1.875M Financing | KnowledgeVision Systems, a Lincoln, Massachusetts-based developer of online video presentation technology, closed a new $1.875m round of financing.
Backers included institutional, private, and strategic investors. Existing investor GrandBan... |
| Jan 4, 2012 | KnowledgeVision Systems Raises $2M in Series A Funding | KnowledgeVision Systems, a Concord, Massachusetts-based provider of cloud-based tools and services for creating online, on-demand and live multimedia presentations, has raised an additional $2m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Gran... |
| Sep 28, 2011 | Achievers raises $24.5M for employee rewards | The company, formerly known as I Love Rewards, gets support from Sequoia and others
Employee rewards platform Achievers, formerly I Love Rewards, has set a pretty modest goal for itself: to “change the way the world works.” So the company i... |
| Sep 28, 2011 | What you need to know - 9/28/2011 | SlideShare dumps Flash; Klum most dangerous celebs on the web; Amazon launches Kindle Fire
Amazon announced Wednesday morning the launch of the new Kindle Fire 7-inch Tablet at a live event in New York City. And that is all CEO Jeff Bezos h... |
| Jan 5, 2011 | KnowledgeVision Systems Closes $2M Series A Financing | KnowledgeVision Systems, a Concord, Massachusetts-based creator of tools and services for creating online, on-demand and live multimedia presentations, has closed $2m in Series A financing from a group of investors led by GrandBanks Capital... |
| Feb 2, 2010 | Vivox Raises $6.8M in Third Round of Financing | Vivox, Inc., a Natick, MA-based provider of voice services for online games, has secured $6.8m in its third round of equity financing.
The round was led by IDG Ventures with follow-on investment from Benchmark Capital, Canaan Partners and G... |
| Sep 15, 2009 | Vivox sets up voice chat system for Facebook and online games | Vivox has built a solid business as a voice chat system for 15 million PC game players. Today, it’s announcing that it’s created a voice chat system for Facebook users and that Electronic Arts plans to build the Vivox client into several of... |
| Sep 15, 2009 | Vivox sets up voice chat system for Facebook and online games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Vivox has built a solid business as a voice chat system for 15 million PC game players. Today, it’s announcing that it’s created a voic... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | Nexage Nabs $4M, Heading to Boston | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Nexage, a provider of advertising software for mobile devices, raised $4 million in a Series A round of venture capital and plans to relocate its headquarters from Fremont, CA... |
| May 12, 2009 | iloverewards.com Is Rewarded | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Toronto-based iloverewards.com, which runs an online product catalog that offers corporate employees rewards as performance incentives, has closed a Series B venture funding r... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | Ember lands $8M for a hefty slice of the smart grid | The Ember Corporation, a major vendor of ZigBee wireless networking technology, just brought in $8 million in capital to connect household devices and appliances to the smart grid. Like most other companies in the space, the bulk of its bus... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | The VC walking dead: Extended edition | A couple weeks ago, Dan Primack of PE Hub blogged a list of venture capital firms he termed the “VC Walking Dead” — firms that by all indication appear to still be in business but lack the cash to bring new investments on board. This got us... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | Glasshouse IPO plans shatter | Glasshouse Technologies, an information technology consultancy specializing in data storage, just announced the withdrawal of its initial public offering due to poor market conditions — making it the third venture-backed startup to cancel a... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | Spark, Grandbanks Up SendMe Stake | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Spark Capital of Boston and Grandbanks Capital of Newton Center, MA, are among the investors in a $12 million Series D round announced today by SendMe Mobile, a San Francisco ... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | SendMe nabs another $12 million for mobile entertainment content | SendMe, the San Francisco company that sells direct-to-mobile entertainment content through several linked web sites, just landed $12 million in a fourth round of financing to fuel its acquisition strategy. Its web sites, SendMeMobile.com, ... |
| Jul 11, 2008 | MobileBeat additions: Nokia’s Mike Baker, Blackberry Fund’s Rick Segal | I’m pleased to announce the latest two panel additions to MobileBeat, our conference on mobile July 24.
They are Mike Baker, Nokia vice president and head of Nokia Interactive, and Rick Segal, partner at the Blackberry Partners Fund.
This r... |
| Mar 18, 2008 | SendMe Mobile grabs $15 million for mobile media | SendMe Mobile, a provider of direct-to-consumer mobile entertainment has raised more funding to extend its market share for its core brands and to expand upon them.
The company not only operates SendMeMobile.com, but also in the past year l... |
| Nov 30, 2007 | Made in Canada: More Boston Tech Companies Poached from North of the Border | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A few weeks ago I chronicled the tale of Xkoto, a database virtualization company founded in Toronto that has a brand-new headquarters in Boston and a brand-new American CEO, ... |
| Oct 15, 2006 | Lead Investor | My good friend Charley says that I “don’t follow very well”. He means that I don’t like to participate in the Series B and C rounds of deals that have been funded by other venture capital firms in the Series A rounds. He’s right. I’ve never... |
| Dec 12, 2005 | Online Backup's Inflection Point | I have been a fanatic about backing up my hard disk since the mid 80s after losing a month’s work on a year end paper in a hard disk crash. Scars like that don’t heal. They stay front and center and result in an obsession about being backed... |